Susan Cooper's poem "The Shortest Day," celebrating the winter solstice, is also a children's book illustrated by Carson Ellis. They collaborated by mail. SUSAN COOPER: (Reading) So the shortest ...

When poetry editor Lou Peacock compiled A Whale ... Many of this year’s best children’s books had this effect. Shana Gozansky’s My Art Book of Adventure drops readers into famous works ...

“A Forest Song” by Kirsten Hall, illustrated by Evan Turk: In the backmatter of this book, Hall explains ... These are my favorite kind of children’s poems: rhyming with a bouncy cadence ...

she’s focused on building a better world for the next generation with a children’s book “that underscores the importance of community and allyship,” Gorman said. Gorman’s inaugural poem ...

In this book, we follow a child who will be spending the holidays ... The University of Arizona Poetry Center is now closed for its annual holiday break. It will reopen on Monday, Jan. 7.

Oh Big Blue poetry book launch is taking place on Monday June 9 at St John’s church, Bridgetown, Totnes, 6.30pm.

Harrison, who has written dozens of books, contributed one poem and reached out to other poets to select or write one for children. "I started contacting poets. It didn't take long," Harrison said.

That was the moment I fell in love with poetry. I begged my parents to buy the children’s book for me so I could read and re-read my favorites, and decades later, the tattered hardcover (the ...

The prolific author published over 100 children’s books, 800 stories, 600 poems, and many songs, often incorporating scripture. Much of his work, characterized by a light and happy artistic ...

NOTE: I’m listing children’s books that are not personal narratives ... teacher inspires her to feel safe enough to write a poem that she later shares with her classmates.